Stories, guides and quiet recommendations from our guides on the ground.
Cape Town with children: penguins, warm-water beaches, the aquarium, rainy-day fallbacks, where to stay with kids, and the pacing rules that keep everybody in a good mood.
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A Cape Town food guide with opinions: the restaurants worth booking weeks out, the markets locals actually shop, the coffee bars that made this a flat-white city, and what to eat in each.
Renting a car in Cape Town: what insurance actually covers, how tolls and parking attendants work, the safety habits locals never skip, and the four day-trip routes worth the keys.
City Bowl, Camps Bay, Sea Point, Waterfront, Constantia or Muizenberg — an honest look at which Cape Town neighbourhood suits your trip, your budget and your evenings.
Cableway or Platteklip Gorge — the honest comparison. Costs, times, fitness, the wind that closes the mountain, and which of the four main routes suits you.
Real 2026 numbers for a Cape Town trip — daily budgets, what Table Mountain, Cape Point, tastings and transfers actually cost, and the three places where spending less quietly ruins the trip.
A plain-language guide to tasting wine in Stellenbosch — what a tasting costs, how many estates to book in a day, what to say (and skip), and eight estates worth the drive from Cape Town.